I finished the revisions on my latest novel—Go me!—and am now in that state of near hysteria while I wait for my assorted beta-readers to tell me it’s crap get back to me.

So, I’m using this period of waiting to plan out the next novel, which turns out to be an amalgam of twenty [...]

I was reading some work by a writer friend of mine last night and was just totally blown away by what she had done. Deep, complex characterizations that took third-person-deep-penetration to a whole new level. One character in particular exploded off that page for me, so fascinating, with this huge history, woven in cleanly, no [...]